Eric Lavallée

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson’s "This Teacher" (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). He is a Golden Globes Voter, member of the ICS (International Cinephile Society), FIPRESCI and AQCC (Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma).

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Farhadi Not Forgotten; Cinema Guild Dig into The Past for “About Elly”

Acquisitions – Foreign Films

Eric Lavallée - November 19, 2014

Rarely do we report on films being picked up a good half decade after the fact, but Cinema Guild's Ryan Krivoshey saw value in...

2015 Sundance Predictions: Which Film is the Next Whiplash?

Features

Eric Lavallée - November 19, 2014

Despite the lottery-esque sounding odds, the U.S Dramatic Competition section which produces the finest American indie specimens such as Frozen River, Winter's Bone, Blue Valentine, Martha Marcy May Marlene, Beasts...

2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions List: An Introduction

Features

Eric Lavallée - November 17, 2014

Whether you are a filmmaker, or one of the Sundance programmers whose task it is to identify the films that make up a line-up,...

2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Craig Zobel’s Z for Zachariah

Festival Predictions

Eric Lavallée - November 14, 2014

We can still feel the heat generated from Craig Zobel's Compliance. His sophomore film, which was made on a dime (his directorial debut Great World...

2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Robinson Devor’s You Can’t Win

Festival Predictions

Eric Lavallée - November 14, 2014

Films gods be damned. After guesstimating its eventual arrival on the film fest circuit and tracking it since it first went into production back...

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The Devils (1971) | Review

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Sympathy for The Devils: The Suppression of Ken Russell’s...

Ken Russell’s The Devils – 2010 Fantasia International Film Festival

Film Festivals November 8, 2026 0

Iconic director Ken Russell was in town to receive a lifetime achievement award from Fantasia for his 50-plus years in the business, a career that has spawned many genre classics including Altered States, Gothic, and The Lair of the White Worm. But it was the little-seen and hard to find The Devils from 1971 that proved to be Russell's most controversial work, and Fantasia managed to snag a copy to be screened on Russell's big night. In the video, Russell discusses the true story behind the film and receives his award with the grace befitting one of the great filmmakers of all time.